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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
The Willard Home School for Girls

Preparing for Vassar, Smith or Wellesley Colleges
will open sept. =, and offers speela advantages
for several elective studies. Pupils who wish can
take lessons at the Boston Conservatory Of Music.
For circular address Mrs III. NJ. MERRILL Dan
vers, Mass.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

IL Is an interesting fact that the Cinnamon
OF New York wear many and valuable dia.
monds. Cinnamon wearing four-earat dia-
mona rings were plenty; others wear
brooches OF diamonds, and quite number
trot around with little chamofs bags contain
ing loose diamonds fastened around their
tawny and scrawny threats.
The immigration statistics for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1887, are published,
They show that the English are leading in
tne immigration from Great Britain to the
United States. Thus from England and
Wales came "a, 783 from Ireland 6S.130 from
Scotland 1858. The English now in the
United States are fast becoming natrralized
ana intend to take an active part in politics.
Jay Gould is happy grandfather. A little
son was born to Mrs. Edith Kingdom Gould
on Tuesday. They say that when jaw Gould
took the first view Of his grandson, the little
fellow put up his chubby little fists and
spent spent s.; some time in struggling to grasp some
hold OF anything, he showed that he was
porn 10 be good grasper, and Mr.. Gould
seemed pleased.
MT. George w. Vanderbilt has made ar
rangements to build and equip, at cost of
some $4,000. branch library for the New
YORK Free Circulating Library The build
ing is to be at No. 251 West Thirteenth
street. Plans for the structure have already
been prepared. This new branch. like the
Ottendorfer branch in Second avenue. and
now building by Miss Catharine Bruce In
Forty-sec0nd street, will be under the charge
of the main library in Bond street.
Old Bob, aged 50 the war horse owned by
Private p. j. Brown of Company F, Third
Indiana Cavalry, died Sunday on the farm of
Mr.. Brown of Kokomo, Indiana. The horse
was buried with military honors by the Gem
erai Harrison Grand Army of the Republic
fost. Mr.. Brown was noted scout in the
a ..iy ana ne and Old Bob bore the famous
hhetstSIage from Mcclellan to Sedgwick, at the
ture 81 ~ "a Antletam, that resulted in the cap
s ort u tne confederate forces under Stew
a AIT IN TINS perilous journey the horse was
c,oth;nea I1ree times and Scout Browns
ate Sharpshooters Ao"i OohloueI-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19

The New York Sun thinksit will greatly
strengthen the Democratic party in the Pa
cific States to have one of the new cruisers
built at San Francisco. The skill of the
California shipbuildersi is of course second
airy matter in Democratic eyes. There is as
little reason, however, for doubling the skill
of the Western builders as for doubling that
this administration will make the most of
the political influence of cruiser under
construction.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19

The trouble in Manitoba over the refusal
OF the Canadian Pacific to sanction the con-
struction of a rival Red River Valley rail-
road from Winnipeg down to the United
States seems farther than ever from settle
ment. Sir George Stephen, the president,
and Van Horne, the vice president of the
Canadian Pacific, are at Winnipeg endcavor-
ing to ooerce the people of the Province to
give up their project, by threats of "sidc-
tracking" Winnipeg by moving the line of
the road and the station. The only. effect of
this has been to madden the Manitobans and
turn their attention to the much talked of
commercial union with the United States.
ltwould he difficult enough for the Dominion
government to coeree Province like Mani
toba; when the task is delegated to great
corporation it becomes doubly difficult.
Stephen and Van Horne will do we'll to Ego
easy"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
FACULTY AND LUCK,
rBoston Herald 1

Travelling through Colorado, Congressman
Reed says he became Convert to the faith
that there is very little of the United States
and rear children, and get rich according 10
the measure of their faculty aud luck" Is
not this the true American spirit? The Port
lanu congressman appears 10 us to have
struck the Keynote. Faculty" is an old
New England expression; ''luckn is still old
en- NO man can get along unless he has one
of those precious possessions No man who
has both can fail to getalong-well, there are
rare Instances to DE excepted
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19

The liquor dealers Of Rhode Island are
happy. The money for paying prosecuting
deputies has given out, and the Legislature
has failed to appropriate more. The Chief
of State Police, however, thinks the temper
apce people will contribute enough money
to continue the prosecutions, and trust in
the State to reimburse them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19

AT the recent meeting of the Association
for the Advancement of Science Edison, the
inventor, read a very interesting paper ON a
new method which he has discovered of pro-
duclng electrical energy directly from the
consumption of coal. At present we get
electrical energy from the consumption of
coal, by turning water into vapor with the
heat, and the force Of the vapor into electri-
cal energy by means of the steam engine and
the dynamo. Mr.. Edison claims that his in
yention dispenSes with the water, the yapor,
the steam engine and the dynamo. He even
hints that the coal can be used in the mines,
aud that electrical energy may be transferred
thence by wire to manufactures, thus saving
the immense cost of raising and transporting
the coal The bases of Mr.. Edison's expert
ment have been the facts that whenever a
magnetic fluid varies in strength in the vicin-
ity of conductor, a current is generated in
that conductor, and that the magnetism of
magnetic metals, and especially of iron, CO.
bait and nickel, is differently affected by
heat BY placing an iron core in a magnet
ic circuit. and by varying the anagnetlzabii-
ty of that core by varying its temperature,
4ui' A1uioOh lido UCCu dulC w BClCIdJc d Cul-
rent in coil Of wire surrounding the core.
Upon the principle involved in this expert
ment Mr.. Edison has constructed genera
tor of electricity which he calls a pyromag-
netic generator, or generator Of electric
power by heat and magnetism without the
use of the steam engine and the dynamo. 1t
is plain that if such an invention could be
made practicable it would effect a
great revolution in the industrial sys-
TEN. The steam engine would be at
once eliminated from all operations in
which it Is now used to produce electrical
energy; and, after this great saving had re-
suited in the production of electrical energy,
the electricity itself might be turned to
uses for which the steam engine is now used
exclusively. But it is long step of prog
ress from Mr.. Edison's theory and first ex-
pertinent to a practical pyromagnetic gener-
at0r that it will pay to use.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
THE PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING. AUG. IS.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nicaiions. The name and address Of the writer
are IN all cases Indispensable, not necessarily LOT
publication but as guarantee Of good iaith.
We cannot undertake 10 return OF preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19

TIE q CoMPANY's EXTRACT OF MEAT
II Tn. Finest Meat-havOuFing Stock. USE Il
for Soups Sauces and Made Dishes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19

This is the day of the total eclipse of the
sun; but no one in America need smoke any
glass. The people of the East will monop-
olize the phenomenon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
WHAT THE SOUTH MUST LEARN.

In short, as the South grows out of its re-
stricted ideas of economy it win also grow
out OF the narrow absurdity which teaches
that any body of men can be truly prosper
Gus while part OF it Is unduly burdened
1t will learn that absolute freedom of the
negro, to make the very best Of circumstances
is not only just to him, but necessary to the
prosperity of the commonwealth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
CURRENT COMMENT.
DIGNITY OF A CABINET OFFICE.
IPrnXidanca IAIrnal1

: DIuNII OF p CABINHI UFFICE.
Providence Journal
Congressman Collins needs to be careful
that his eagerness to keep the good opinion
of the President does not betray him into the
more serious danger of losing the good opin-
ion of the country lie is a bright man, but
he is not so richly endowed that he is en-
titled to look upon a seat in the United
States Cabinet, however offered, as Second
hand nlothas -
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
Enjoy Life.

What truly beautiful world we
live in! Nature gives us grandeur of
mountains, glens and oceans, and
thousands Of means of enjoyment. We
can desire no better when in perfect
health; but how often do the majority
of people feel like giving it up disheart-
ened, discouraged and worn out with
disease, when there is no occasion for
this feeling, as every sufferer can
easily obtain satisfactory proof, that
Green's August Flower will make
them free from disease as when born.
Dyspepsia and liver complaint are the
direct causes of seventy-fve per cent.
of such maladies as Biliousness, Indi-
gestiOn, Sick Headache, Costiveness,
Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the
Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and
other distressing symptoms. Three
deses of August Flower will prove it's
wonderful effect. Sample bottles, 10
cents. Try it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

A few weeks ago report came
from Virginia that bloody lux was
epidemic In Amherst, Roanoke, Bed
ford and Botetourt counties. The
same day it was received. Chamber
lain u Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, sent
bottle of Chamberlain'S Collie,
Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy to
each OF the 140 post-offices in the four
counties with the request that it be
given to some family afflicted with
the disease. Since then they have
received several letters from there,
the following is copy of one of them:
Chestnut, Amerhest Co., Va, Aug. Z.
'07. MessrS. Chamberlain & Co., l
received the bottle of Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
sent me and it has been used with the
greatest success. Ishall still endeavor
to let such valuable remedy as yours
be known. Two children died with
bloody tiux, almost in this immediate
vicinity, not long since, and had your
remedy been known then, it would
probably have saved their lives. Mess.
VIM. StrotheS & Son, wholesale drug
gists, at Lynchburg, are selling a
great deal of your remedy. Please
accept thanks for the bottle sent me.
and rest assured that l will use ii
whenever needed. l am yours very
truly and gratefully, p. E. LAVENDER.
L. NJ. Sold by BARNES 81 NORTH
CRAFT.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
Blaine as a "Boodler. ;

Blaine, Of Maine, $4,000, right;
200 not issued; nOn-asSessable.
Blaine, of Maine, 1000 acres; right.
Blaine, of Maine, $500 acres, of
government land; right.
Blaine. of Maine, $4,000; right
The above is an extract from the pri-
vate memoranda of the then president
of the Kansas Pacific railroad, General
j. c. Stone, as read before the Con-
greSsional Committee now investigat-
ing the management of that road.
General Stone explained this and
about fifty similar bills of expense were
for getting the subsidy acts through
Congress, Mr.. Blaine being a member
from Maine. This was for the Kansas
Pacific only, while the books of the
Union Pacific proper show that Mr..
Blaine received &c, 900 acres in Nebras-
ka and 1000 shares stock and bonds
from that line also. All these and the
Little Rock bonds, show how Mr..
Blaine's income has reached $50 900
per month, though he had nothing
when first elected to Congress, and
why he is an available" candidate for
observation-disclosures City Democrat.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

The New York Herald calls Cleve-
land ian eminent man." Eminent for
what ?-AbiLe1le Gazette.
Well, for several things. Among
others for qualities which called forth
an enthusiastic letter of invitation from
the town of Abilene, to which was
signed the name Of Editor Rohrer, of
the highly esteemed Abilene Gazette,
and in which Editor Rehrer and others
said:
The prosperous condition of our be-
loved country, and its progress in
wealth, intelligence and virtues of good
citizenship we acknowledge to be due
to the happy conduct of our national
affairs, over which you have presided
with so distinguished ability and sue
cess. We hope for the pleasure of your
presence among us. We desire to aid
your administration in all the ways
which lie in our power, and shall greet
you and your distinguished wife with
demonstration of respect which CRATE
full and delighted community can eX-
hibit.
If Editor Rohrer is not satisfied with
that able testimonial to eminence we
shall be astonished- to say grieved.
-KdnSaS Citq Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
The Ohio Idea.

John Sherman's Ohio platform ''de-
mands such duties on wool as will Sc
cure American markets to American
producers. That is to say that sixty
million of people are to be compelled
to pay whatever price the limited
number of wool producers may be
pleased to ask for their wool. The
aim of good government is supposed
to be to secure the greatest good to the
greatest number, yet the Ohio Idea
seems to be to rob the masses for the
benefit of the few. The wool tariff is
the solitary rope which the protection
lists have thrown to the farmers. For
every dollar the farmer gets for raw
wool, he pays three for manufactured
WOODEN goods. After coming out loser
on the wool deal he must go right on
and pay a duty on iron, salt, lumber,
sugar and the countless other things
which the farmers must buy. And
the farmers of the west are beginning
tie understand this, and no longer look
upon the protectioniSt scheme as be-
ing ''all wool and yard wide. '-AtcE-
isoR Patriot.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
Early Corn.

The farmers of the Arkansas valley
will remember that the Eagle a few
years ago commenced to advocate the
theory that owing to the liability of
dry Augusts and Septembers it would
pay corn Iaisers to send north or nerth-
east for the seed corn. to such states
where the large or field corn, owing to
climatic conditions or short seasons.
matured in eighty to one hundred
days. The matter was again alluded
to this season. Some years ago several
farmers of Sedgwiek county acted up
on the advice, and, so far as we know.
everyone sending to Iowa or to north
ern Illinois, northern Indiana or north
ern Ohio for seed had big and early
matured crop. Mr.. George Ross. of
this city, who owns farm on the Min
nescah, in this county, believing the
theory a sound one, sent this spring
to Cleveland, Ohio, for seed known
as the early Ohio. He planted 100
acres on April ]5 to 20. The crop
fully matured by July Is. Yesterday
he brought in an armfui Of the prod
uct pulled at random. Finer, more
perfect, more solid or better filed corn
can not be shown from anywhere.
The ears We're very large, uniform in
size, hard enough to grind and filed
up to the very end of the cob. And
that is not all. The entire hundred
acres will go from sixty to seventy-five
bushels to the acre. 1t was all ripe
before the hot dry spell got in its de-
structiye work.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

The Ohio Republican convention
favored the improvement of waterways
and federal aid to education, as means
Of working off the surplus. The sur
plus is standing temptation to ex-
travagent expenditure. None of these
or kindred mOney-scattering schemes
would be pushed but for the fact that
there is a surplus in the Treasury.
The government is now collecting
$12O,0O0,0 year beyond its needs.
To spend money on any of these plans
means the perpetHation of the present
high taxation. If the next Congress
has a disposition to relieve an over
taxed people, and remove a standing
temptation to extravaganza, one of its
first acts will be TO reduce the present
war tariff.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

The development of the Pacific Rail-
road investigation have attained a
seriousness which compels the prosecu-
ton of the offenders. The matter has
gone too far now to stop short of that.
The indications of guilt are too over
whelming and too universally recog-
nized to be disregarded. Both the ad-
ministration and Congress will hope
lessly lower themselves in the public
mind if they do not take the action
necessary in the premises. The first
of the Senate upon meeting in Deem
Der should be to deal with Stanford. It
is crying disgrace to permit that man
to remain in his seat a moment longer
than it requires to prove him unworthy
of it. Neither the millions of the
criminals nor the astounding reticence
of the press on the subject will serve to
avert the consequences of what so
far has been revealed.-EX.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
SHERIFF'S SALE.

TTNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER
~ OF sale issued by the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court OF Dickinson County, State OF Kansas
in a cause pending therein, wherein Asa W.
Kenney is plaintiff and w. C. johnson, Eliza d.
johnson, Matte V. T. Johnson, b. F. johnson,
George 4. Rogers and ". L. Harris, partners do
ing business under the firm name of Rogers Bros,
Il Henry j. Latshaw are defendants, will, on
Saturday, September Sd, a. D. 1887,
at the front door of the court house, in the city
OF Abilene, County of Dickinson, State OF Kan
SaS, at 10 O'Clock a. m. Of said day sell to the
highest bidder for cash. the following real estate,
to-Wit:
Lots tw enty-one (21), twenty-three (23), twenty
five 25) and twenty-seven (20, On Third street, in
the City of Solomon, Dickinson county, Kansas.
Said lot q sold separate, in Dickinson county,
State OF Kansas.
The said real estate will be sold pur-
suant to the judgment OF the Court in said
cause recited in said order Of sale.
Witness my hand this 5th day OF July, A.
D. 1887. j. j. MILLER.
49-5t Sheriff OF Dickinson county Kan.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
The Doris & Colvin Circus.
| WILD WEST AND HIPPODROME-A
GREAT SHOW YESTERDAY.

WILD WEST AND H1PPODROME-A
GREAT SHOW YESTERDAY.
Kansas City had yesterday after
noon and evening the very best and
biggest show that ever exhibited here,
including all the circuses S,
Forepaugh's and the rest. 1t is a
wonderful show. The circus proper
is entirely complete, with more acts
and actors than three ordinary shows.
The menagerie is also wonderfully
complete, and includes great variety
of wild beasts. The hippOdrOme has
many exciting races. 1t is without
an equal. The races are run on their
own merits. The Wild West is re-
plete with wonders, the Clusters mas
sacre, the stage coach robbery and
Leon riding thirty-one horses at one
time being the leading acts. The
Custer battle is indeed great. The
whole show stands unequaled.
Twenty-Five thousand persons attend
ed here.-Kansas City Times, August
9. 1887.
The above show, in all its greatness,
will positively exhibit at Abilene on
September 2. We would advise all
to see it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
Clay as a Tariff Reformer.

a Republican paper says: 1.-THE
state of Henry Clay will not much
longer stand the free-trade heresy.''
Henry Clay said that an American
industry that could not thrive with a
tariff of 20 per cent, should perish.
American industries on an average
are now protected by duty of 45 per.
cent, and were Henry Clay alive to-
day he would be devoted and enthu-
siastic tariff reformer.-Chicaqo Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

After a Long spell of heat we are
having copious rains and cooler weather.
A feeling of relief is experienced, our
pastures are reviving, and all animate
and inannimate nature rejoices in the
blessing of rain. The pools of stagnant
water in our creeks no longer send forth
its deadly exhalatiOn, our cattle are
drinking pure water and feeding on
pastures green.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

In the Washington correspondence
of the Baltimore San appears the fol
lowing item: George Washington
sent Martha Washington to Jenneman' S
brewery for pail of beer last night.
when she reached Fourth street, near
E, she met Abraham Lincoln, and in a
quarrel between them Lincoln fractured
her scull with a brick and fed. The
police carried Mrs. Washington to the
hospital"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

If a high tariff does not enhance the
cost to consumers of dutiable foreign
goods, it fails in its purpose of making
such goods dearer than home products.
If high duties on foreign goods and
wares do not induce and enable Amer
lean manufacturers to charge more for
their articles than they would be able
to do but for the duty, then the tariff
fails to protect.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

A negro cook on board of a Scotch
schooner is the author of a novel way
of killing a shark. He heated fire.
brick red hot, wrapped it up in greasy
cloth and threw it overheard, when the
voracious shark darted after it and
swallowed it. The sharks fury was
soon subdued and he foated to the sur
faca dead
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
Wichita has abandoned her gas well

Wichita has abandoned her gas well
after sinking it 200 feet, and finding
nothing better than salt water, and
Ottawa has gone down 900 feet with
out result, and is becoming discouraged.
The idea that the bowels of the earth
are filled with natural gas that may be
successfully tapped anywhere seems to
be not altogether corTect.-Jlmction Csty
IL1lan1l
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01
SHERIFF'S SALE.

of sale issued by the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Dickinson Co., State Of Kansas,
in a cause pending therein, wherein Mary
Bragg is Plaintiff and Adeline Brown Newton
Reed, ETA Reed and Albert Reed are defendants.
will on
Monday, Sept. 18th, a. D. 1887,
at the front door Of the Court House, in the city
Of Abilene, County of Dickinson State OF Kansas,
at II o'clock a. m. of said day sell to the highest
bidder for cash, the following described real
estate to-wit: Lots nos. thirteen (I3) and fifteen
(5) in block eighteen (18) in the town of Enter
prise, Dickinson county, Kansas.
The said real estate will be sold pur-
suant to the judgment Of the Court in said
cause recited in said order of sale.
Witness my hand this 9th day OF August, A
D. 1857. j. j. MILLER.
50-5C Sheriff.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

The Liberal Unionists in England
seem to be getting demoralized. Maud,
Secretary of the Union, has rendered
his resignation, as he finds himself un-
able to sustain the Tory programme.
The results of the recent elections had
something to do with his resignation.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-01

Frank La Flesche, full-blooded
Omaha Indian, employed in the bureau
of Indian affairs at Washington, has
been promoted to a $1,000 clerkship.
He was educated at a mission school in
Nebraska, and has been in government
employ for several years.